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Gustavo Couto de Jesus

@gustavocjesus.bsky.social
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🧠 PhD Political Neuroscience @UvA_ASCoR 🌐 Politics of Adolescence & Democracy ippad.eu 📚 Social and Affective Neuroscience 🌌 Sci-Fi enthusiast 🐈 "No damn cat, and no damn cradle.”

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Jakob Kasper @jakobkas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Cancel culture has taken over social media... or has it? In a new paper, Randy T. Lee, Jabin Binnendyk, @gordpennycook.bsky.social, Ovul Sezer, and I found that people overestimate support for "cancellation": doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Gustavo Couto de Jesus @gustavocjesus.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
1/7 When does our disagreement with politicians start? 🤨 In our new preprint with @bnbakker.bsky.social, @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & Joe Bathelt, we find that incongruence may be rooted in preconscious perception, emerging at 150ms, well before conscious evaluation: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
APS's journal AMPPS has accepted its first manuscript through a collaboration with a nonprofit that offers decentralized, community-driven peer review. @dsbarra.bsky.social 
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AMPPS Accepts First Manuscript From Innovative Peer Review System
The APS journal Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science has accepted its first manuscript through a collaboration with a nonprofit that offers decentralized, community-driven peer review.
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Isabella Rebasso @isabellareb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🎉 New paper out in Political Behavior (with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social) Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others? 💡Not political knowledge, but interest and confidence-in-knowledge drive emotional engagement. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧵
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Disentangling the Sophistication-Emotion Link: Political Interest and Confidence-in-Knowledge, but not Knowledge, Drive Emotional Responses - Political Behavior
Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others? Past work suggests that political sophistication, consisting of knowledge and interest, is related to feeling strong emotions abou...
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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 05/02/2026
🚀 dashboardr is out! An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax. Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included). 📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/ Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Stop Formatting Before the Desk Reject Proposal from @bnbakker.bsky.social and @jakobkas.bsky.social for a staged submission process when submitting manuscripts to academic journals. #AcademicSky #PhDSky #AcWri
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Stop Formatting Before the Desk Reject: A Proposal for Staged Submissions
Many flagship journals reject most manuscripts at the desk-review stage, with rates of 40–80% being common
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Xinyao Zhang @psych-xz.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A few more photo archives I'd love to post but the picture count limit didn't allow me to do so in my last post. It was a lovely day and it was really nice talking with so many people sharing keen interests in this young but growing field. #politicalneuroscience #neuroscience #cognition #workshop
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Xinyao Zhang @psych-xz.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Recap NEUROPOL Workshop 🧠 Last Friday, Jan 23, @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social (University of Amsterdam) hosted the event “Turning Politics Inside-Out” to bridge internal and ecological validity in political neuroscience research. Here are some recaps of this fun and interdisciplinary day we’ve had.
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Gustavo Couto de Jesus @gustavocjesus.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Turning Politics Inside-Out: NEUROPOL Workshop! 🧠🗳️ Amsterdam, January 23rd We're discussing the core challenge of Political Neuroscience: How do we bridge the gap between detailed cognitive mechanisms (high internal validity) and real-world political behavior (high ecological validity)?
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Hot Politics Lab @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
✨ New Academic Year, New Speaker Series! ✨ We hope you all had a wonderful summer break. We’re thrilled to announce the #HotPoliticsLab Speaker Series lineup for the first semester of the 25/26 academic year. We look forward to welcoming you back for another year of thought-provoking discussions!
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Gustavo Couto de Jesus @gustavocjesus.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
1/4 My first dissertation paper is now out with @bnbakker.bsky.social & @gijsschumacher.bsky.social! Do our brains quickly encode partisan bias when simply viewing politicians’ faces? The paper: doi.org/10.1080/1747... Journalistic article by Psypost: www.psypost.org/early-brain-...
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An ERP-study on the extent to which partisanship conditions the early processing of politicians’ faces
Partisanship has been associated with various cognitive biases. These findings are primarily based on self-reports and task performance and less on measures of neural activity. We reviewed the lite...
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